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时光倒流七十年 Somewhere In Time英文影评(1980) He is a talented young playwright of 1980. She is a great new star of the American theater in 1912, on her way to becoming the toast of one continent. They meet, fall ecstatically in love and are suddenly separated, it seems, forever - time travel being far less predictable than even the Long Island Rail Road. This is more or less the plot of ''Somewhere in Time,'' which is hereby nominated for the 1980 ''Hanover Street'' award that each year goes to the big-budget screen romance with the highest giggle content. The film opens today at the Trans-Lux 85th Street and other theaters. Somewhere in Time,'' which does for time-travel what the Hindenburg did for dirigibles, was written by Richard Matheson, based on his novel, ''Bid Time Return,'' and directed by Jeannot Szwarc, whose last triumph was ''Jaws 2.'' Its stars are Christopher Reeve (''Superman''), as Richard Collier, the playwright who falls in love with an old photograph and successfully wills himself back into the world of 1912, and Jane Seymour, a beautiful young Englishwoman who plays the actress, Elise McKenna. The music is largely by Rachmaninoff, whose ''Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini'' is played more often than sanity can easily accommodate. The film's principal setting is Mackinac Island, Mich., and its Grand Hotel, which is one of the last, great 19th-century American resorts still in tip-top shape. The hotel and Mackinac are spectacularly lovely, but fail to give substance to this ephemeral endeavor. The screenplay is priceless (funny) and though both Miss Seymour and Christopher Plummer, who plays the actress's stern manager, are credible, it's Mr. Reeve who sets the film's to...